Records and chronological list of members of the Medico-Chirurgical Club of Edinburgh.

Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Records and chronological list of members of the Medico-Chirurgical Club of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    the success of the change which had been made. Since that time it has prospered. The same social spirit pervades its meetings ; the same geniality; the same conversation from grave to gay—from the darkness of philosophic depths to the flash of merriment which sets the table in a roar. The episode of Drs. Shortt and Gregory has been alluded to ; the early regulation as to visitors has, however, long been obsolete; and the alteration has been found both pleasant and expedient. Occasionally, and with the approval of the Club, generally furnished by the secretary, guests have been for long admitted to the meetings. On most occasions these are medical, but several dis- tinguished non-medical visitors have shared, from time to time, in the festivities. At these, the current events and topics of the day invariably meet with due post-prandial con- sideration, and are not unfrequently accorded an indelible memory in the original songs and similar poetic contributions of the members, and preserved with other memo- rabilia in the minutes of the Club. Much of the record now offered of the